日期：2008-03-19 MASTER. This word has several meanings. 1. Master is one who has control over a servant or apprentice. A master stands in relation to his apprentices, in loco parentis, and is bound to fulfil that relation, which the law generally enforces. He is al... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MASCULINE . That which belongs to the male sex. 2. The masculine sometimes includes the feminine, vide an example under the article Man, and see also the articles Gender, Worthiest of blood; Poth. Intr. au titre 16, des Testamens et Donations Testam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MARSHALLING SECURITIES, equity. When a party has two funds by which his debt is secured, and another creditor has a claim only on one of these funds, a court of equity will compel the creditor having a double security to resort to that fund which wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MARRIAGE BROKAGE. By this expression is meant the act by which a person interferes, for a consideration to be received by him, between a man and a woman, for the purpose of promoting a marriage between them. The money paid for such service is also k... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MARKET. A public place appointed by public authority, where all sorts of things necessary for the subsistence, or for the conveniences of life, are sold. 2. Markets are generally regulated by local laws. 3. By the term market is also understood the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MARITIME CAUSE. Maritime causes are those arising from maritime contracts, whether made at sea or on land, that is, such as relate to the commerce, business or navigation of the sea; as, charter parties, affreightments, marine loans, hypothecations,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MARINE INSURANCE, contracts. A contract by which one party, for a stipulated premium, undertakes to indemnify the other, against all perils or sea risks, to which his ship; freight or cargo, or some of them, may be exposed, during a certain voyage o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANURE, Dung. When collected in a heap, it is considered as personal property, but, when spread, it becomes a part of the land and acquires the character of real estate. Alleyn, 31; 2 Ired. R. 326. MANUS. Anciently signified the person taking an oat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANSTEALING. This word is sometimes used synonymously with kidnapping. The latter is more technical. 4 Bl. Com. 219. MANU FORTI. With strong hand. (q. v.) This term is used in pleading in cases of forcible entry, and no other words are of equal impo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANKIND. Persons of the male sex; but in a more general sense, it includes persons of both sexes; for example, the statute of 25 Hen. VIII., c. 6, makes it felony to commit, sodomy with mankind or beast. Females as well as males axe included under t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANIA A POTU. Insanity arising from the use of spirituous liquors. Vide Delirium Tremens. MANIFEST, com. law. A written instrument containing a true account of the cargo of a ship or commercial vessel. 2. The Act of March 2, 1799, s. 23, requires th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANDATE, civil law. Mandates were the instructions which the emperor addressed to public functionaries, which were to serve as rules for their conduct. 2. These mandates resembled those of the pro-consuls, the mandata jurisdictio, and were ordinaril... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANDANT. The principal in the contract of mandate is so called. Story, Ag. 337. MANDATARIUS. One who is entrusted with and undertakes to perform a mandate. This word is used by the civilians in the same sense that we use mandatary. Poth. du Mandat,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MANBOTE. In a barbarous age, when impunity could be purchased with money, the compensation which was paid for homicide was called manbote. MANCIPATIO, civil law. The act of transferring things called res mancipi. (q. v.) This is effected in the pres... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MALUM IN SE. Evil in itself. 2. An offence malum in se is one which is naturally evil, as murder, theft, and the like; offences at common law are generally mala in sese. 3. An offence malum prohibitum, on the contrary, is not naturally an evil, but... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, or MALICIOUS ARREST, torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding, or a plaintiff in a civil suit, without probable cause, by a regular process and procee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MALICE, torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause. 2. This term, as applied to torts, does not necessarily mean that which must proceed from a spiteful, malignant, or revengeful disposition, but a conduct injurious to anothe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MALA PROHIBITA. Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful. 2. A distinction was formerly made in respect of contracts, between mala prohibita and mala in se; but that distinction has been exploded, and, it is now established t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 TO MAKE. English law. To perform or execute; as to make his law, is to per- form that law which a man had bound himself to do; that is, to clear himself of an action commenced against him, by his oath, and the oaths of his neighbors. Old Nat. Br. 16... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 MAINTENANCE, quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or... 阅读全文>>